To start the serial application, the parameters must be correctly set. The table below presents them:

Parameter

Value

Baud rate

115200

Data bits

8

Parity

none

Stop bits

1

For instance, to use minicom you only need to adjust the serial port - the other parameters are correctly set by default. You might need to have administrator privilege to access the hardware. See the following steps to learn how to configure minicom.

Press the "a" key from your keyboard to edit the Serial Device field. Use the device found in step 3 for your system. Press "Enter" to apply the configuration. Since many customers do not use hardware flow control, you might want to disable it by pressing the "f" key.

Power-on the embedded system. Messages will immediately start to be printed to the serial terminal.
When the module finishes booting, you will have a terminal such as from the image below. This means that you have access to the serial terminal of the system, and that it has Windows CE pre-installed. In the next section, you will update the module OS to Linux.